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The Bible’s Spiritual Realm is in Disarray
Since heavenly beings are also created in God’s image, they too have been granted their own kind of power and authority and have been given their own free will as to how to use it. While we typically think of heavenly beings as being obedient servants of God, that’s just not the picture the Bible…
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What is the Mission of Christians?
Why did God make us? Why are we here? What are we supposed to do? Everyone asks this question at some point in their life, and the Bible answers it right in its opening pages and reconfirms it all throughout its pages, all the way to the end. Let’s dig deeper into what it has…
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In Jackson as it is in Heaven
JXN Cloud and the network it’s a part of has recently changed its mission statement to, “In Jackson as it is in Heaven.” This reference to the Lord’s Prayer actually goes well beyond the Lord’s Prayer and into the entire message of the Bible from beginning to end. Let’s talk more about that in today’s…
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Has God Predetermined Our Death Day?
If someone died because I passed coronavirus along to them, was that all a part of God’s plan? I had a neighbor who seemed to frame things that way once. My guess is that he would quote two particular passages in his defense: ….his days are determined, and the number of his months is with…
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Get Persecuted
While it’s hard to view being persecuted in a positive light, the Bible has a lot of good to say about it. Jesus himself said that we are blessed when we’re persecuted and that we should take joy when such things happen. Let’s talk more about this beatitude in this episode of the JXN Cloud!…
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Everything Does Not Happen for a Reason
Few statements upset me more than the phrase, “Everything happens for a reason”—especially because I always hear people use this statement in reference to God after they were persecuted in some kind atrocious way by Satan. I always respond, “Yeah, it did happen for a reason—and that reason was not God!” God does not want…
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A Clearer Understanding of Biblical Election
The Biblical term election isn’t too hard to comprehend if you just look at it through the lens of the Old Testament; for Israel was God’s chosen community. He elected them to be His nation. In the same way that we are all imagers of God because we are born human, all Israelites were elect…
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The Beatitude of Seeing God
Jesus says, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” Join us in today’s episode as we talk more about that beatitude.
